North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the ArcticIn June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on his boat, frozen in ice 100 miles from the nearest settlement, with the long polar night stretching into darkness for months to come. With his world circumscribed by screaming blizzards and marauding polar bears and his only companion a kitten named Halifax, Simon withstands months of crushing loneliness, sudden blindness, and private demons. Trapped in a boat buried beneath the drifting snow, he struggles through the perpetual darkness toward a spiritual awakening and an understanding of the forces that conspired to bring him there. He emerges five months later a transformed man. Simon's powerful, triumphant story combines the suspense of Into Thin Air with a crystalline, lyrical prose to explore the hypnotic draw of one of earth's deepest and most dangerous wildernesses. |
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... wait for next year . " I overreacted . " No one is ever perfectly ready , Diana . You do your best , then you go ! Half the world is waiting for some perfect time to start living their lives . No ; we said it , we do it . And I don't ...
... wait for next year . " I overreacted . " No one is ever perfectly ready , Diana . You do your best , then you go ! Half the world is waiting for some perfect time to start living their lives . No ; we said it , we do it . And I don't ...
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... waited an hour and a half to two hours , could I expect some help from the moon on the trail down ? If it clouded over , or if I had miscalculated , I would suffer a cold wait for nothing . Still , I lay behind the rock and slept for ...
... waited an hour and a half to two hours , could I expect some help from the moon on the trail down ? If it clouded over , or if I had miscalculated , I would suffer a cold wait for nothing . Still , I lay behind the rock and slept for ...
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... waiting for each exciting photon . Light from the sun , however , was not the sun itself . Hidden beneath those ... wait , had he wasted away to nothing ? Yet according to Inuit legend he could not be dead , because it is the Raven ...
... waiting for each exciting photon . Light from the sun , however , was not the sun itself . Hidden beneath those ... wait , had he wasted away to nothing ? Yet according to Inuit legend he could not be dead , because it is the Raven ...
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